The 1^st workshop of this project was successfully held in Water’s Edge Hotel, Kotte which was hosted by University of Colombo during 7^th – 11^th February 2022. The Inauguration was held with the participation of administrative staff including Vice-Chancellor of the University of Colombo, delegates from partner countries.

In this five-day workshop, the managers of each University gave the introduction on their universities, identified the administrative perspectives, foreign team identified the aspects of Sri Lanka Qualification Framework, identified the outline of course structures and planned for next workshops and activities.

Initial discussions to establish either a postgraduate certificate or postgraduate diploma of NDD and Masters of NDD by coursework in each Sri Lankan partner University were discussed and course module preparation was initiated.